Huntsville Independent School District

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Huntsville Independent School District
Address
441 Fm 2821 East
Huntsville
, Texas , 77320
United States
District information
Type Public
GradesPK–12 [1]
Schools11 [1]
NCES District ID 4824030 [1]
Students and staff
Students11,318 (2023–2024) [1]
Teachers409.49 (on an FTE basis) (2023–2024) [1]
Staff476.55 (on an FTE basis) (2023–2024) [1]
Student–teacher ratio27.64 (2023–2024) [1]
Other information
Website www.huntsville-isd.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Huntsville Independent School District is a public school district based in the Hawkins Administration Building in Huntsville, Texas, United States. [2]

Contents

In addition to Huntsville, the district serves the city of Riverside as well as rural areas in central Walker County. The current Superintendent is Dr. L. Scott Shepherd.

Schools

List of campuses

High school

Huntsville High School
Address
Huntsville Independent School District
650 Farm to Market Road 2821 East

Huntsville
,
(Walker County)
,
Texas
77320

United States
Coordinates 30°44′32″N95°32′09″W / 30.742200°N 95.535798°W / 30.742200; -95.535798
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtHuntsville Independent School District
PrincipalRobert Gilbert
Staff129.78 (FTE) [3]
Enrollment1,847 [3]  (2023-24)
Student to teacher ratio14.23 [3]
Color(s)Green and white [4]
  
MascotHornets
Nickname Hornets [4]
Website Huntsville High School

Middle school

Mance Park Middle School ManceParkMSHuntsvilleTX.JPG
Mance Park Middle School
Originally built as Huntsville High School in 1950. This campus then became Huntsville Junior High. Later, the campus changed to Mance Park Middle School. Today it is a middle school campus with approximately 1300 students per year attending.[ citation needed ]

Elementary schools

Former schools

Standardized dress

Huntsville ISD has standardized dress for grades 6–12 adopted by the board summer 2017. [5]

Demographics

By 2007 a Huntsville community report stated that over 50% of the HISD students are "classified as economically disadvantaged"; this is a higher percentage than the overall state percentage. As of 2007 over 18% of the students do not graduate from high school. [6]

Notable alumni

Racial integration

Until the 1960s, the school system, like many others in the United States, segregated schools by race, with white students attending one set of schools and non-white students attending another.

The district was fully racially integrated in 1968. Elementary schools began to be integrated before 1965. In 1965, students from non-white schools were allowed to apply to attend Huntsville High School instead of the non-white high school, Samuel W. Houston High School. One of the first African-American students to attend Huntsville High School was Joreen Kelly. She later became a teacher at Huntsville High School. The first African-American student to integrate Huntsville Elementary school was Janet Smither. (Now known as Janet Johnson) [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for HUNTSVILLE ISD". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved July 16, 2025.
  2. ↑ Rainwater, Mary. "HISD to hear update on high school construction." Huntsville Item . June 17, 2010. Retrieved on August 10, 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 "Huntsville High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Huntsville High School". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Standardized Dress Guidelines." Huntsville Independent School District. Retrieved on September 13, 2010.
  6. ↑ Massingill, Ruth and Ardyth Broadrick Sohn. Prison City: Life with the Death Penalty in Huntsville, Texas . Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN   0-8204-8890-9, ISBN   978-0-8204-8890-5. 26.
  7. ↑ Cartwright, Gary (November 2010). Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border & the Assassination of a Federal Judge: An American Parable. Cinco Puntos Press. ISBN   9781933693897.
  8. ↑ Green, Stephen (February 8, 2014). "Retired teacher helped integrate Huntsville High School". The Huntsville Item . Retrieved January 7, 2016.
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